If the exe association has been modified, or you used the XPFix that khanyasir posted, go here:File association fixes for Windows 7
and download the fix for EXE files.
To extract the file from the ZIP archive, double click on the downloaded file to open it, then drag the enclosed file to your desktop.
Double click the file to merge it into the registry.

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